Beta 2, at this point, has it's advantages over beta 1. Me being able
to use cdrecord isn't one of them, unfortunately, but more on that
later.
If I had to pick a word, beautiful would be it - man, is this a pretty
GUI. And I use Blackbox! Blackbox or no, visual excitement runs amuk.
If I had to pick another word, it would be something along the lines
of arrrrggg&^*@^%%(*!!! as I am unable to get online (Optimum Online
cable modem). DHCP refuses to determine the correct IP info. This is a
drag - it would do it in its sleep in 7.2. I pray that this is just
because it's an early beta.
One nice improvement, my cheesy generic PS2 scroll mouse works, which
it didn't in 7.2. I'd missed that feature...Another notable item, the
install was _fast_, boy...clocked in at just over 40 minutes doing a
full expert install - though I didn't install the arcade features. I
suspect this is a stripped down LM, though, as my usual mail client,
pine, was not to be found; nor was my fav editor (kwrite).
One of my great hopes was that my CD-RW would work with the 2.4 kernel
- sadly, that does not seem to be the case, although I do have a nice
new coaster...I tried both the dummy write, which gave me this:
<--dummy write output start-->
[rog@localhost rog]$ cdrecord -v -dummy -eject speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -pad
outshined .wav
Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg
Schilling
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
atapi: 1
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities
page.
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'LG '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8042B '
Revision : '1.07'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities
page.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities
page.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities
page.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 1024000 = 1000 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: audio 52 MB (05:10.51) no preemp pad
Total size: 52 MB (05:10.52) = 23289 sectors
Lout start: 52 MB (05:12/39) = 23289 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 4
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3)
ATIP start of lead in: -11849 (97:24/01)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
Disk type: Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar)
Manuf. index: 25
Manufacturer: Taiyo Yuden Company Limited
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write
parameter page.
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 336560
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write
parameter page.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities
page.
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 1 seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer
ready.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write
parameter page.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write
parameter page.
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 0 of 52 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error.
write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1B 00
status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
write track data: error after 0 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing time: 5.021s
Fixating...
WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
Fixating time: 0.001s
cdrecord: Input/output error. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable
error
CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s
cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
<---dummy write output end-->
I also did an actual write using an mp3 file, which gave me the
aforementioned coaster. It wouldn't play in either windont or linux,
but in winbiteme, it did show up as being a disc that had been written
to, with 2.8 meg of info on it; you just couldn't access the info.
This is actually farther than I could get in 7.2, so who knows, maybe
I will be able to burn CD's without having to pop for a new one.
Did I mention how pretty this one is? Even LILO is looking good these
days...you can also bring up diskdrake, which makes me wonder if you
can resize the partitions...I don't remember being able to do this in
7.2, but then I never tried. I'm obviously going to have to reinstall
again eventually anyways, so maybe I'll hack up a partition just for
ha-ha's...
I'm sure there's more, but its late...
Hope beta3 comes out soon...
